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THIS SUNDAY OREGOyTAy, PORTLAND, AUGUST 20, 1905. The Runner and the Landlady and the Ten Guests EPISODE IN PORTLAND AMATEUR HOTEL-KEEPING INCIDENTAL TO THE LEWIS AND CLARK CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION d$ (HAD occasion to moot two friends at the station the other evening, and while waiting in line for them to ar rive had time to notice others also In the waiting procession. As soon as the puff of the engine was hoard there was bustle End commotion, the faces of the watchers lighted up with thoughts of the loved ones they expected to meet and a few built castles in the air in rogard to the amount of money they would amass by having go many of these prospective Fair visitors in room No. 1 at $1 a night per head and 5LS0 for the lovely front room with the divan in the corner. Suddenly, as if to arouse these people from their wool-gathering, the gates licked, flew open and the crowd of wr-ary. be sooted passengers filed forth. Ju.-t then a tall woman with a distinctly masculine face of scarlet hue, clothed in a tight-fitting purple dreas, a hat cocked -p on one side and a general demeanor of ' I'll get there who from the time the gates clleked had been nervously fingering the cards In her hand, stepped forth, de spite the presence of a severe-looking po Locman, approached a lady and gentle man coming down the line, authoritative ly tapped the lady on the shoulder, pushed her card under the lady's nots and in a shrill voice exclaimed: "Do you wish accommodations? I have fine rooms; come, and I will make you cheap rates." etc., etc. y The demure little woman, with a hus band to lean upon (did you ever notice how retiring and twining a woman with a man fieems. especially to a ioor female tvho hasn't a mighty oak upon which she run try the Ivy act?) shook her head as If o say she had a place upon which to rest tier weary head, and passed on. Unfazed. my purple lady stepped forth igain and again, repeated the tap and presentation of cards, just how long ahe stood in line, or whether successful at that exact point, I know not, bocause in the meantime we had met our friends, nnd after assisting them In finding the tggage-room, where they checked their trunks, were about to depart for home, when walking through the waiting-room cn route to the car. 1 once more saw my lady in purple standing with quite a crowd about her. My curiosity was aroused, and becoming interested I made E me excuse to my sister about having c'aer business to attend to. and advlded her to take her friends on up to the 1 ouse. As soon as they left 1 strolled aLout the station close to the lady in 1 urple, her compatriot, who was dressed in white shirtwaist and skirt, and the by this time party of ten that she haQ caught with her bait, the cards and her fluent tongue. There were all sorts of satchels set about, from the Wack pasteboard-looking affair, with its shawl strap holding the bulging sides In place, to the leather suitcase; even the lunch-Dox, with its remaining stale bread and dry piece of ham, was in evidence. They were pas scngors from the tourist oars who had been beguiled by my masculine looking friend and her shirtwaist cousin. As 1 stood watching and wondering by what magnotlc power she had succeeded In gathering this goodly crowd undor her wing, the party gathered up their belong ings and started forth processlon-ilke be hind their loaders. They walked two by two as orderly as any girls of a boarding c-hool. As they passed the various li censed runners, there was a stir and the puor runners wore an envious look, as much as to say: "There's my quarter-ahead gone up jo flume," and "I wonder where that purple damsel got 'cm." Sev eral cf ti.t more pugnacious runners I jshefi forward and tried by wiles and promises of low rates to secure some of tl.e little party, but it was "no go." On they proceeded with their heavy satchels, ani even the tempting illuminated sign of a tertaln hotel on Sixth street held no charms for them. One enterprising spiel er for a house In the vicinity of Burnslde street thought he surely would captivate 6cme of the fair sex of the procession, and Bhouted ag they pasod: "My, for a rrowd like you all I'd give wholesale prices: and for the Indies an extra 1 per cent discount." As if in a trance or un der a hypnotic spell, the 10 followers plodded along. As they neared Sixth and Washington Greets, I wondered how much further they were to be taken before they reached this boarding-house, and if they weren't t'red carrying those heavy satchels after their long, tiresome, dusty train Journey, and why the woman in purple and her friend didn't take a street-car. or if they were the enterprising business women they seemed to be, why didn't thoy hire a bus. Washington street was eventually reached, and even then there was no sign of thm boarding a car. If I was tired of my tramp without any load, what must these poor wayfarers be? I was tempted to go on my way rejoicing and not to try to fathom the depth of this w-eb, then I said, "No. I will see to Some BY PAUL DANBY. i(nrIIE railroad engineer and train f dispatcher are all right," said the tired city ticket agent the other day, "but they are not the whole thing when it comes to hard work, and they don't see all the romance thore Is Jn the railroad business. Yet to read some of the newspaper articles about the engineers and the dlspatchors you'd think the men who come In personal contact with the passengers have nothing whatever to do with the operation of the rail roads. "But I want to tell you that the ticket agents, the train conductors, the Pullman conductors, the trainmen, the porters, even the waltors. the stewards and the chef on the dining cars, are all entitled to some degree of sympathy and recog nition from the public. Oh, yes, I suppose there are some black sheep among them. There are a few lawyers, doctors, mer chants, policemen, labor leaders thore are even some offlce-holders who are not alto gether what they should foe. But the ma jority of men in all walks of life ore good fellows, hard workers, and onger to play their parts in the game of life squarely. It Is so with the men In every grade of railroad passenger service, too. "I suppose you think It's a cinch to sell tickets all day over the counter of a railroad ticket office. Well, let me tPll you differently. In fact the ticket agent's lot never was an exceptionally happy one. Twenty jcars ago, though, he had much easier time than now. Then about all he had to do was to hand out one little parallelo gram of pasteboard alter another, with tl.e names of the stations at the begin r ng and ending of the passenger's Jour ney printed on it, take In tho price in each case and keep his cash straight. 11 Isn't so now. Then most ticket . had to sell tifkets only over the lines by which they were employed. Now, In most offices it Is so in the one I am lucky enough to have a Job In tickets are on sale on 20 or SO or more lines, to say nothing of THE what limit women's vocation extends, and how far it leads them." Gazing abstract edly in the distance, and wondering what course I should pursue. I suddenly saw my lady in purple leave her party and make a B-line north all by her lonely. Now, here was a, conundrum, why did he cast aside her iteh. after having taken such pains to catch them? While I was ' trying to decide whom I should follow, my i purple lady or the shirtwaist cousin, who I had the 10 fish trailing behind. I noted th , fish were making headway and I fol lowed them with one eye n-squlntln' after I my purple friend. But she escaped my ' vigilant glance, and my little crowd passed on up the hill while the city folk and downtown paraders cast an interested look after them, and no doubt wondered where they wero going, how far they car Tied those heavy satchels, and whether I they wouldn't enjoy a good bracer. On and on proceeded my party of ten and their leader, and as they neared the Pert land Hotel, the sweet strains of music floating in the air from the orchestra of that famous hostelry seemed to fascinate the wee procession of tourists, and when they reached the front entrance to that famous establishment they loitered awhile and listened to Its lulling sound. But the pause In their march only lasted a few ' .v X .1 , """"'-""' ". in ana tney retired In disgust. Then, as noted It was my purple lady, now interesting Romances of the Traveler's Guide vNBY. the tickets to various destinations in t to get the run of the time-tables of one to tell the man who sells them t glneer and train f?rclsn landB- " can buy a ticket at line, though some lines have enough , tickets all about It. and so do the f ii Hrht dm the office I work in to almost any place branches to make vour hw im nt v ' minutes, a? time wag fleeting, and they In the whole world to which railroads or steamships run. "When I began there as office-boy Si years ago. you could buy tickets to only a few prominent places not on our lines, and as the price of every ticket we had to sell was plainly indicated by printed schedules I could sell tickets about as well as the boss, only I couldn't make the change quite as rapidly and surely. "Unless you have been a ticketseller yourself, you can't understand what a dif ference the new way makes. From my office I can sell tickets to San Francisco, for instance, over several different routes. Thore are excursion tickets, limited tick ets (as to time), and unlimited tickets. We sell sleeping-car tickets also, and they are now of two varieties 'standard and 'tourist. 'Tourist cars are not much used in tho East as yet, tout you will find them on many of the Western lines, whore the distances are greater, and there thoy are a great boon to those travolers who do not have any more money to spend than they actually need. "It is these 'through or long distance ticKets that make tis work yes, and study too. Many of them are several feet in length, with sections to bo torn off and turned In by the conductors of the various divisions over which the passen ger passes. And of course the computa tion of the prices is sometlmos an intri cate arithmetical operation. It has taken me a full half-hour, many a time, to figure out just how much to charge a passenger and just how to send him through with the least loss of time and without charging him more than he want ed to pay. "This brings to my mind the study of time-tables. "It makes a passenger godd-natured and inclined to travel more freely if he Is able to make connections just as he ex pects to, and It makes him a sore-headed stay-at-home to spend n lot of money and find himself hundred or thousands of miles away from home with a ticket that won't carry him Just where and as he expected to go. "So we have to make the most elab orate studies imaginable of tho railroad guides It is a comparatively easy thing PROCESSION SLOWLY MOVED DP SIXTH explained to them that her place was only a few blocks distant and that thev could oorne down any evening, seat them selves on camp tools In the little yard or court and enjoy the music quite as well as the swells who were coated on the porches in their fancy and costly robes. So with this pleasure in prospect, they wore satisfied to tear themselves away for this evening. Whon they roachod Morrison-street corner they stood again to lay .down their satchels and change arms. Those few blocks, as at first represented by the boguilers. had lengthened terribly and the poor wayfarers felt as If they would never reach their destination. As they stood resting:. I noticed three men walked up to them, but before doing so they conferred among them selves and said. "It Isn't fair; sh has no license." and the youngost man of the party remarked. "Well, maybe they're her friends." at which the third derisively added, "Not on your tin type; she Just hauled 'cm in. I'll wagor. I'll brace thorn and see," which he ac cordingly did. holding forth a much be lcttercd card. The other two men marched up and stood beside him. but the two ladles thus accosted absolute ly refused to even glance their way. and they retired In disgust. Then as line, though some lines have enough branches to make your head swim. But It's a really difficult Job to familiarize yourself with a vast network of lines stretching from ocean to ocean. North across the boundary Into Oftnada, South across the boundary into Mexico, and out upon the seas over the 6teamshlp lines. Why. the flrrt few weeks of a green tlcketscllers llfo are positively miserable If he really tries to master the situation In a short time. Even the most experienced of us have to study nights, sometimes in the Spring and Fall, just after the seasonal changes of sched ules are made. "The making out of our reports is an other thing which has become1 extremely complicated and that often calls ror night work. We tickot-agents arc by no means sticklers for Just so many hours a day. nor are wo able to get clear of work altogether on Sundays' and holidays, as you might suppose. "City ticket agents have an easy time of it In one way, as compared with the station ticket ugent, however. "They are afflicted a good deal more than we are with the last-minute pas sengers; people who rush up to the window five minutes before train time to buy tickets half or all the way across the continent, or to some remote Mexican or Canadian point, and with impossible ideas as to stop-overs and time and expense. Were It not for the bureaus of information that are now a feature of nearly every big railroad station, I don't know how the station tickot sellers would get along at alL The Travelers Joys and Sorrows. "Do you never pet In touch with the romanco of roal life? Why. my friend, I haw heard It so many times that of all people in the world the lawyer and the doctor know most about the trou bles of their follows, their hopes and their foars, but I don't believe either of them hoars many more hard luck stories than the ticket seller or good luck stories, either, for the matter of that. "When folks are coins: on a Journey to attend a funeral they always have 7 3ft STREET. their luggage and once more set forth. My party turned a couple of corners and at last entered an humble-looking frame house, stalked into the small parlor, sank on the horsehair chains and sighed a contented sigh. The llttlo old coal-oil lamps cast forth their sick ly light, but what mattered that? Peace was not for long, however, for Just as they were parleying as to rates along came two husky men and started re moving the furniture from the house. It was a case of eviction, the rent had not been paid, and at this hour 10:3) the tenants were bcinfr put out. The shirtwaist lady begged for more time but to no avail. The unappcased land lord would not listen, so the tired party disgustedly pocked their luggage, meandered forth and Inter all ten piled into one room somewhere In the neigh borhood. They said that would do un til morning; when they would o out and hunt a place for themselves and trust no one. As I was returning to my home along Washington street, I hoard the plain tive notes of a hand-organ. A woman was grinding" It. and as I dropped a coin" In the outstretched hand I scru tinized tho countenance beneath the black sunbonnet. and to my surprise. noted It was my purple lady, now at tired In black, and pljlng another trade. F. F. F. " to tell the man who sells them their tickets all about It. and so do the folks who are cailod home, suddenly, or summoned peremptorily from home be cause of the mortal illness of some one near or dear. la the Journey under taken Teluctantly, because there's a disagreeable lawsuit at the other end, or because a lot of money has been lost? Into the ticket seller's car the story Is ruthlessly poured, with never a thought that perhaps ho mny have troubles of his own that are about all ho wants to know the details of Just then. "But there are compensations, for. of course.-tho ticket seller hears all about It whon the prospective traveler is go Ingto be married or to get the money that has been left by an aunt he never heard of. or has unexpectedly made a strike, and for the first time In his life Is able to make a Journey because he wants to see the country. On the whole, there's more pleasure and prof It than the reverse In listening to the unsolicited passengers stories of love and grier. of Joy and misfortune, and the business will be a pretty tame one when the passengers stop talking to the ticket sellers about themselves." Idle as the Pullman Man Sees It. "Do I seo much of the romance of real llfo in ray trips back and forth?" repeated a gray-haired Pullman con ductor on a transcontinental train. "Well. It's this way: I'm so busy holding down my Job most of the time that I don't take much notice, general ly, to tell tho truth. Yet. on the whole. I guess the Pullman conductor sees about ns much of real life as anybody going. "Only yesterday we had a little ex ample of what you might call the pa thetic side, I guess. When we pulled up at a station somewhere In Kansas, there were four farmers with a stretcher. Standing beside the stretch er was the most woe-begone looking woman, all In black. I ever set eyes on. On the stretcher lay a tall young fellow, with a -face the color of baked clay and wide, staring, rolling cye3 that seemed to take In everything In sight. The expression in the poor' chap's face told of an awful story of horror, of amazement, of despair. The poor woman almost broke down when she lenrned that we never received the message she supposed had been sent to us to have a berth made up for the sick man. I hud the porter hustle around right lively. I tell you. and we got the un fortunate man In as quickly as we could and made him as comfortable as possible. After the train 'was started the story came out. The man was the woman's brother. She had been down in New Mexico with her tfusband. who had struck a mine or something else that both felt sure was at last going to bring them the wealth they had worked for tog6ther for 20 or 20 years. He had unexpectedly sickened nnd died, though not till the strike had materialize to the tune of some thou sands of dollars, with a prospect of considerable more. Story of a Plucky "Woman. "She had brought the body back to Kansas, the funeral had been held, and she had gone to make her unmarried brother a visit on his ranch In tho western part of the state. Two or three days after her arrival as If she hadn't had enough to bear he had been stricken with paralysis, and she was taking him to Tbpeka. to see If he couldn't get some help In the hospital there, it being Impossible, of 'course, to get proper troatment out on the ranch. The country doctor, who had been called, had told her there wasn't much chance, at the best, for the par alysis was complete, except as to the eyes, lie couldn't speak, he couldn't so much as move a finger, he couldn't even swallow; but It "was probable, from the look of his wife, staring eyes, that he was conscious, at least, partially. "I must say that his sister took it like a thoroughbred. It was plain enough that the double blow was about all she could boar, but she didn't complain,! and she sat "by her brother's side all the way to Topeka. changing wet cloths on his head every few minutes. Before she had been on the train very long a moth erly woman, somewhat older than she. sat down by her side, asked If she couldn't help and talked with her as soothingly as If talking to a little baby. "After a while the face of the woman whose husband was dead and whose brother was stricken began to lose Its set look and pretty soon I saw that she was crying, not sobbing and boo-hooing, you know, but Just quietly. I thought it was all up then, and I wondered why some women couldn't let well enough alone, but 1 guess it was all right after all. for I heard two other women passen gers talking about the' case and one said to the other. " 'She's crying now, poor thing; it'll do her good.' "Well, you know. I think It did. All the women in the car gathered 'round her presently and. when we reached To peka. she looked a good deal better, in spite of her crying spell more hopeful. I should say. She was not at all the forlorn creature she was when she got on the train, and she almost smiled when she bade her friends of a couple of hours good-by. as her brother was put Into the ambulance that was waiting for him. The Brides nnd Bridegrooms. "Yes, there are plenty of funny things happen, too. You've heard the story about the man by whose side on the seat sat a big traveling bag. and the car being full, with passengers standing, he was asked by the conductor to put it down and re fused. Also. how. after awhile, the con ductor hlmsolf put it down only to find that It didn't belong to the man in the seat at all? "Yes? Well. I'll bet that's happened a good many times. I saw it happen some years ago. before I was in the sleeping-car service, and wa3 working out of Chicago as a news butcher. The joke was on the train conductor, and everybody laughed right hearty, of course, and the conductor he had a fit of the sulks which you wouldn't expect from a railroad man. now would you? "The new married couples are some fun. but they don't interest me ajiy more; they are all so much alike. So are their friends who play smart and tell everybody on the train that a bride and bridegroom have Just gone aboard. I can't say that I 'think much of that sort of thing myself, especially the rice throwing. They don't allow anybody to get on trains any more -with rice if they can help it. " 'Cause why? Well, some fool young ster threw about a quart of rice through a window of a train one day. and It got Into the aisle. The road was full of twists and turns, and the train was a fast one. A passenger, an old man nice old chap he looked, too started to go down the aisle to get a drink of watr. Just as he reached the rice the train took a sharp curve. Now. he might have stood the rice, and he might have stood the sharp curve, but together they were too many for hlm.vSo he slipped and fell and broke his arm In two places, 'suffered a compound frac ture.' a doctor said who was In the train and set the old gentleman's arm' In the baggage car. The old man was like the woman I told you about In one thing he was game. "He made no holler, and he wouldn't ston over and go to a hospital as tho J doctor said he ought to. He was hurry ing East from California to some place In Pennsylvania, where his "only daughter was going to get married. Ho had lost a day already; another day's delay, he said, would make him late to the wedding, and he didn't mean to let a little thing like a broken arm interfere. All the railroad men are down on rice-throwing, you can bet on that." Graft on tho Railroads. "Making the passengers show their tickets at the gate has Just about done away with any pickups by the train con ductors," chimed in the train conductor, "because it has shut otf the cash fare, but ever once in a while some sharp passenger gets the better of one of us. Maybe you have heard of the fellow who wanted to go to Omaha from Chicago, nnd had only enough money to buy a ticket to the third or fourth' station out? Well' I've seen It In print, and I've heard It told, but I don't know whether it Is so. "This chap waited till he saw a man buy a ticket to Omaha; then he bought his short single trip ticket. Then he man aged to sit in the some seat with the Omaha man. Taking out his pencil he asked the Omaha man to lend him his ticket for a minute ne didn't have a scrap of paper himself, and he wanted to make a few figures. The ticket wa3 lent and the figures were made on the back of IL Then the conductor took up both tickets and then the man without a cent went forward to the smoking car. "The conductor remembered him and later charged him with trying to go away West on a short-trip ticket. . "But. said, the man without a cent. 1 gave you a ticket to Omaha, and you gave me a check. If you'll look through your tickets you'll find mine with some figures on the back of It.' "Sure enough, the conductor found tho ticket, and he had to carry the man through to the end of his run, but he was short one ticket, and he felt sure he'd been done. "You probably have never heard that a year or two later the man without a cent, having made money meanwhile, hunted up that same conductor and made good to him? No? Neither have I, and I wouldn't believe it If I had." (Copyright. 1905. by E. S. McClure.) In Joyous Jersey. 1 A little girl Hvlnit In Jersey Used to pat en her clothes topsy-turvey. Till her ma. In despair. Cried out: "I declare This child ought to be dressed in kersey." Secret Explosive of Japanese Dr. Shimose Worked .Powder That Bears Correspondence Chicago Chronicle. TOKIO, July 20. While the whole world is filled with amazement and even consternation at the victorious arms of Japan alike on land and sea, few people give a thought to the wonderful powder known .as "shimose" after its ingenious and expert chemist-inventor, which has wrought such terrific havoc among the hosts of imperial Russia. As all the world knows, every nation has Its own pet rifle for the army, and Its peculiar theories about naval ordnance also. Germany swears by her Mauser. England has Lee-Enfield, and so on. Sim ilarly everj nation has Its own "high ex plosive,'' the British cordite, the French melinite, etc. In all cases the various government chemists pursue their inves tigations and experiments in absolute secrecy. An Unknown Power. As in all other departments of Japan's wonderful work, an all but Impenetrable veil of secrecy has been drawn over the investigations and even the personallty of her chemist In explosives, Dr. Glan Shimose. He was born In the very hum blest circumstances In the province of Hiroshima some 4T years ago. when rail ways and regular steamers were practic ally unknown In the Island empire. And yet as a youth Shimose determined to make his way to the capital, although It is over 4S0 miles from his native vil lage in Hiroshima to Tokio. That his plans were already full devel oped in his mind will be seen from the fact that on reaching the Japanese capi tal he was able to pass a fairly stiff examination at once and forthwith gained the first round In the battle of his life by entering the Imperial university -surely one of the most go-ahead academical in stitutions in the world, not even except ing Yale, JIarvard and Columbia. But his studies In the home village were necessarily limited for want of books, and now on arrival In th great, ram bling, teeming City of Tokio we find Shimose compelled to bg and borrow textbooks from ex-students, who took pity on him and he has been known to stay up whole nights copying some of these by hand in order tlmt the books them selves might be faithfully returned to their owners In the shortest possible tlnw. His Indomitable Spirit. It is no exaggeration to say that yottng Shimose qnite commonly felt the pinch of actual starvation. Certain It Is he who ordinarily without the few coppers neces sary for the barber or the bath man! It need hardly be said that the future hero of his country passed every exam ination with perfect precision: yet. strange to say. after graduating with tbn highest honors, ho could find no better employment than assistant in a humble printing office at wages which appear to us simply laughable something under ten shillings a week! But even in those days of obrcurity Shimose's restless spirit was casting about for openings for his ability. He was wondering what destiny had mapped out for him. and had, moreover, a craze for "bettering himself" that would have dono credit to a conscientious city clerk. H became so skillful in the printing office that It suddenly occurred to him h might get employment from the govern ment In this way, and at length, after many demonstrations of his ability, h was given, on trial, a somewhat respon American Scenery and Its Influence Continued From tect has flung universal castles, domes and turrets of palace and tower In In finite disorder, and then throw the radiant prlsmatlcs of the spectroscope over it all . Do not say you have seen-scenery unless you have seen American scenery. Here It rises to Its loftiest perfection In moods of solemn vastness or quiet grace. Comr up along this Western coast as a climax of all. Here by the Pacific, nature revels all its glory, here every wild antic of na ture has found full vent. This Is indeed the end of the world the last show on earth. The Southern Coast. Think of that charming Stimmerland of Southern California, that land where the sun-kissed hills and valleys arc ever changing Into the commerce of beauty. There where paradise Is being restored among the palms "and pomegranates, where a scorJated Campagna vaster than many Itlays Ik blooming like the rose. There the trees of life bear their fruit literally even month, and the trav eling nations have found healing In the leaves thnt shade this orange-groved Eden. There, too. have the endless pro cessions brought the glory and honor and wealth of nations. Again These Cascades. This whole Western rango with Its mighty sentinel peaks containeth glories and wonders undreamed of by the world. Let me tell again of the silent hall of Mount Mazama. Just below us here. Here Is that old volcano Into whose open crater you can fling Vesuvius out of sight. To have once looked into this almighty vor tex where blue heavens are repeated a mile below your feet, la worth several Journeys around the globe. From this terrible sanctuary of silence, this shrine of the gods, even the redman stands aloof In dreadful awe. Sometime millions will have seen It and been hushed. I am glad I saw It and slept upon Its brink many moons before the trail grew wide enough for two. Floating there In the deep night shadows of Wizard Island one hears the voice of God. But let no reckless foot venture the Inner sanctuary, lest he be hurled into the unknown forever that reigns down there in the lower blue, which looks the upturned dome of the universe. My Cathedral Vision. Come again and stand yonder at the meotlng of tnese great waters; look up at these five enormous fiolds of snow, held miles toward heaven, and somehow, divin ity Is enshrined about you. Thank God these awful scenes cannot be marred by man's folly. Man is Insignificant here, and so vast are these, man can only wor ship in silence, and that silence Is so In tense It cannot be broken. Like St. Pe ter's in Rome, which is so vast no audi ence can perceptibly fill it. so standing there man seems but a moment in eter nity. The coming of the millions of earth to worship hero in all the years hence can never crowd the corridors and aisles of this universal cathedral. This old Co lumbia Cathedral, whose ether blue vault is supported by these spiritual snow-white columns. These manifestations of divine purity. Behold a never ceasing processional and recessional that shall Jn all the coming years move up and down that enchanted transept that cuts its way through this range. In the Columbia gorge can be seen and felt all varieties of the Divine Archi tecture. Behold unmeasured architraves and terminating cornices, towering spires, or lofty vaults and domes with arches and flying buttresses in endless array. Vast and impenetrable niches where stand mil lions of unapproachable forms and spir its chiselled and painted here by the God ot Ages. To complete the cathedral effect, unnumbered hexagonal organ pipes are full of the music of silence, blending Eleven Years on the His Name. d sible position In the government prlntlntc works at Tokio. It was at this stage of his career that Shimose turned his thoughts to invention, and. naturally enough, ho began operations In connection with his own employment. After many ex periments he succeeded In producing the curious ink which is now used tn Japan for bank notes and paper monov generally, and which renders forgery and alteration practically Impossible. The secret, like all Japanese secrets, was so well kept that the production of the very ablest counterfeiters wer Instantly detected. It was while employed in the gov ernment printing works that Shlmosn turned his attention to naval and mili tary Implements of all kinds, offensive and defensive. He was brought into contact with the naval and military officers, both foreign and native, and began to discuss eagerly with thorn th components of the various high explo sives used throughout the world. Best Not Good Enough He soon saw that most of the smoke less powder of the world ami. indeed, also the Japanese service powder in us at that time, and known as "men kavp ku" had very serious defect?. The "men kayaku" had been adopted by the Japan ese government as a kind of compromise, and It certainly possessed the best quali ties and fewest defects of all the service powders of Great Britain. France. Ger many and Russia. Unfortunately, when dry the slightest concussion was apt to set it off. and it was found absolutely necessary by the then war chemist of Japan to add at least 2i per cent of mois ture to it if it were to be considered at all safe. But. like all hish explosives, the stuff was extremely capricious ami delicate, and the slightest excess of moisturo caused It to become entirely nonexplofive. It was also very delicate to keep, and in a year would dry up completely. In some respects the "men kayaku" resem bled the American "geraltine." which Is tremendous In power but is apt to get frozen in very cold weather, and this fact has brought about very terrible trag edies In mines and elsewhere. After a time Japan grew extremely dis satisfied with her service powder, and bgan to make inquiries about American "moshlite." French "melinite" and the "lopllt" of Germany. Dr. Shimose one day resolved to devote himself entirely to the production of a new powder which should be as perfect as It was humaniv possible to make it. He would, he said to himself, devote years to the work if necesary. To the writer, who met him recently in Sasebo. the great naval arsenal of Japan, the doctor declared modestly that he had spent "a little over 11 years" In produc ing the terrible explosive which now bears his name. He Is an exceedingly modest little man. this war chemist of Japan; and not for himself, but from high government officials, was I able to learn that he was in the habit ot spending entire days and nights In his laboratory working year after year upon his powder. On one occasion he was nearly blinded for life by a premature explosion during one of his experiments. Very frequentlv his hands and lingers were dreadfui' burned. but nothing ever seemed to turn him from his purpose, and at length. whtl the now famous "shimose powder" was a perfect chemical compound, he took It modestly to his government, with results now known to all the world. Page Thirty-Eight. ever with the vox-angelic of a thousand vapory waterfalls. Standing there at tho eastern portal of our continent wait the multitude audleno whom no man can number, to be guided through this cathedral aisle. Here where the dusky race are vanishing toward th sunset, will come the paleface In his turn to worship In stillness and pass out into the unknown sea beyond. Desecrations. The advertising fiend Is abroad In the land. Let every true American that loves Nature refuse to purchase anything whose God-defying advertisements now ruin hundreds of miles of lovely fen awl moor. These beauty-hating men of board and brush, would daub the white throne with some brand of whisky and tobacco and drive the angels out of heaven with dis traction. Let railroads use their great power to save us from this unmitigated prostitu tion. I Insist the eye Is more sensitive than throat or nostril, and if our boards of health prosecute when food is polluted, then why pure scenery be polluted, and none protest, nor find redress. Must the vast army who pay to view and adore the landscapes be forced to ride In wrath be tween sky-high boards on either side of your train, and read and reread, for a thousand miles, of some brand of emetic nlcontlne. until he turns pale and pulls the curtain down to prevent sickness. Any man who allows these advestlse ments on his buildings or fields. Is only thereby advertising himself as very cheap. Wanting In all the refinements ot Nature. Value to Scenery Merchants. Let us keep American scenery as tho greatest asset the country has. If it has been worth JSO.00O.COO to New Hampshire alone In ten years, then calculate its value from a continental basis. ( Above 14,00 people visited the wilder ness of Yellowstone Park last year, while some days 50.ACO people walk the streets of Southern California, all of whom aro guests of travel, and the mountains of Colorado are ever filled with hanpy pil grims. The number that visited the Colo rado Canyon reveal the following remark able Increase: 1800 8131 X90R 12.704 1801 2,0SjlU04 15.0S3 1902 .0S This amazing increase illustrates in one concrete case what I have found all over the continent, but have not time to tell. These are only characteristic of the pres ent Interest In our unique scenery, and. ten years hence It will bother the rail roads to transport the scenery lover. The whole world Is coming to see this continent. The whole East Is coming to see the wonderful West. If the old Balti more & Ohio could advertise its crooks and turns as worth the time of travelers to come and see. then this continent has an inexhaustible world of wildest beauty in crooks and turns of hill and vale, in creasing ever as you come westward. Westward the course of empire takes its way, and let me dedicate my verso to this Columbia River region, down whoso gor geous gorge came Lewis and Clark 1C0 years ago, in whose honor we are cele brating In this Exhibition City. His Only Opportunity. Philadelphia Ledger. "Little boy." said a gentleman, "why do you carry that umbrella over your head? It's not raining." "No." "And the sun Is not shining." "No." "Then why do you carry lt2" " 'Cause when It rains pa wants it, and when the sun shines ma uses it. and It's only this kind of weather that I can get to use it at all."